EduGameMeet Games for Change

EduGameMeet is a no cost, informal, collaborative experience for educators, indie educational game designers and students. It is a F2F coming together of practitioners working in games for change/impact and exploring their affordances in learning contexts. EduGameMeet takes place on the Friday April 24th at the American Museum of Natural History and in conjunction with the Games for Change Festivalwhich will be meeting April 21-23 & 25. This event will involve people working in the field of visioning, designing and harnessing educational games for impact.

This day will be organized around an unconference format focussed around two loose themes.Participant numbers are restricted to 40 people so we have split the day into 2 sessions. People who are time poor can come for one but we would love to have you with us for the whole day. Presentation time slots in the morning will be rapid fire 5 or 10 minutes with a keynote to open the day from The American Museum of Natural History.

For more information contact one of the organizers Bron Stuckey bstuckey@iei.net.au @BronSt
Marianne Malmstrom @knowclue or Rurik Nackerud @ruriknackerud

You will be able to attend

Morning Session: 9.30 to 11.30 am Where are we now? - rapid fire presentations
Afternoon session: 12.30 to 2.30 pm Where could we go? - discussion visioning & connecting

Who is coming so far...

Share your story, game idea, project, class experience, game reviews or professional learning or just take the chance to meet and collaborate with others working with games for impact in education. Don't be shy!

	Name & Contact	Organisation	Area of Expertise	Games Interest
1	Bron Stuckey	Innovative Educational Ideas, Australia @bronst	K-Grey	Social games, online community, gamification, digital citizenship
2	Rachel Bolstad	NZ Council for Educational Research @shiftingthinkng	K-grey	Gamification, educational futures, school-community engagement, transformative learning, co-design
3	Marianne Malmstrom	@Knowclue	P-8	Sandbox MOGs, OpenSim, GuildWars2, Oort Online
4	Rurik Nackerud @ruriknackerud	Portland State University @ruriknackerud	K-Grey	social games, games for good, fans of games, creative games, participatory game design
5	Lorri Hopping	Hopping Fun Creations @HoppingFun	Gr3-12 and informal, all subjects, along with adult ESL/ELL; strong STEM background (former editor of children's science magazine, author of 50+ books)	I'm a game maker and writer/editor of educ materials—board, card, video, social—with a deep background in and passion for education (former Scholastic, Inanimate Alice).
6	Dan Milward	Gamelab @danmilward	Game developer	Inventor of Gamefroot and Kiwi.js game engine. Advocate of Hour-of-Code and looking for Gamefroot partners in the states. Collaborating with @shiftingthinking and NZCER on Curriculum For the Future game.
7	Barry Joesph	AMNH @mmmooshme	Museum Education	Connecting with science and museums through play.
8	Donelle Batty	Education Tasmania @peggysheehy	K-12	I am very interested in games that support learning empathy. I am keen to network and to learn from what others are doing, with regard to what can next be explored in the classroom. I am keen to collaborate on someones project.
9	Peggy Sheehy @	Suffern Middle School @peggysheehy	K-12	Eager to see/play the latest rounds of edu games and collaborate with designers.U
10	Christine Marsh	AMNH	I am currently an educator working for the AMNH with their programs aimed at having students create games that will then be used for the public to learn scientific content.	Educator Using Games for Impact in School
11	Mitch Weisburgh	Academic Biz @weisburghm	cofounder of www.games4ed.org	We are looking to grow the use of games in education, because they are so engaging, they are so effective at teaching, and they also assess what's been learned.
12	Joel Levin	Teacher Gaming @MinecraftTeachr	To share and update people on MinecraftEdu progress, and support others using it.	To meet and connect people doing awesome game-based work in ed! Especially around Minecraft.
13	Steve Isaacs	K-12 @mr_isaacs	I teach game design and development to middle and high school students. I am passionate about game based learning and the intersection of all stakeholders and their value in terms of collaboration.	Certainly advance / evangelize the use of games. I would really like to develop relationships with devs and create opportunities to help organize pilot programs bringing games to school.
14	Christine Marsh		I am currently an educator working for the AMNH with their programs aimed at having students create games that will then be used for the public to learn scientific content.	Network
15	Linnette Attai	@PlayWell_LLC	Compliance expert, helping companies and schools navigate student data privacy and other concerns
16	Nancy Weinstein	@MindprintLearn	Want to explain how we use a one hour valid assessment to pick the right games for each child based on our company-developed rubric based on UDL standards.	Pitch a solution--use our rubric to help you find the best games. Also, find out about great games that we are unfamiliar with. We will have our teachers review any games free of charge to the developer. We just need to know they are out there and have potential and we are happy to review them.
17	Lisi Gopin	@edtechtoday	I'm an instructional designer for grades 7-12 and I try to incorporate games and simulations where possible. Looking to share ideas and learn from others' experiences.	I'm excited to network with other gaming educators and looking forward to learning from everyone's ideas and share my own.
18	Teresa Hinkel	Wendellgirl@twitter	I know how excited the kids get when we use games for learning but I haven't changed the class to a gamified class. I want to listen and see if it is possible and others are doing. I want to learn.	I want to listen and learn.
19	Jessica Millstone	@j_millstone	I am personally and professionally interested in researching the ways games-based learning is being implemented in today's classrooms.	Excited to attend another year of Games 4 Change and talk directly with teachers and game developers about direction their respective work is headed. Wondering if the momentum around GBL has tapered off or is being folded into other Ed-tech initiatives.
20	Al Doyle	@aldoyle	I teach game design for grades 9 through 12.	I am looking to network with Indie Game developers, other Game design teachers using Unity, share experiences and pitch a game idea.
21	Scott Price	@emsariel	I've been working with kids & teachers to make games-for-the-classroom for years, including the innovative Gamestar Mechanic. I can speak well to game production, business, and creative, empowering design.	I'd like to see what folks are up to (including projects I might work with or help publish), I'd like to learn something new, and advance the field more generally.
22	Geoffrey Birky		Having taught mathematics (grade 6 through college) and completed doctoral work in math education, I have a good knowledge of curriculum and research in mathematics learning, and I have many ideas for games that could help students develop a much more conceptual understanding of fundamental ideas (such as variables, functions, and mathematical reasoning). I've started to implement some of those ideas by developing games in HTML5/Javascript and would like to share them.	I'd like to connect with game developers to help me refine my ideas and turn them into games that teachers and students could use.
23	Michael Collins	@_mike_collins	I design and build open source online education learning technology (elmsln.org) at Penn State and teach digital design and 3D animation to art and design students. I'm currently exploring gaming's potential in the online education space, particularly for VR.	I'm looking for networking and open-source collaboration projects for online learning.
24	Amy O'Neal	@amyeone	Indie Educational Game Developer
25	Jen Baer		Teaching Artist - developing SEI games.
26	Joshua Eckert		--I worked with a Techstars 2014 ed tech company, CreatorBox --I co-founded an edutainment startup with one of the Myst creators --I worked in curriculum dev for Singapore's government --I'm looking for new opportunities in product development, design, learning engineering, and/or marketing. I'd be happy to share my lessons learned and best practices from my experiences.	I want to network, and I want to explore where Augmented Reality might be necessary for education. What do we want to do today, but can't without the help of AR?
27	craig michael cobert		my civ game	learn
28	Sande Chen	@sandechen	Hi! I'm a serious games consultant and the co-author of the book, Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform. I'm doing more in-depth research on how games intersect with learning.	I am looking to network and possible leads in my research.
29	Sarah Rolle	@artdabbler13	Excited to talk about our experience with games in education.	I'm looking forward to networking and learning about new opportunities.
30	Katherine Doyle	@katiadoyl	Indie Educational Game Developer
31	Cecilia Dolk	@frkgeek	To share how I can se both adults and kids learn faster and making more impact with using larp methods.	Network with NY people!
32	Kellian Adams	@museumninja	I've been building location-based games for museums and informal education spaces for 7 years so I have some experience in what works and doesn't. I'm also pretty good at connecting people with resources and other people since I've seen a lot of good (and not so good) edtech.	I'd like to meet new people and see what they're working on. Are people doing anything with immersive theater or oculus? Are there any new games or platforms I should check out. Also just great to be among like-minded people.
33	Tory Novikova	@torynova	An insight into creating aesthetically beautiful and engaging educational experiences that can compete with mainstream mobile games.	Network! Find some creative projects, meet interesting people.
34	John Krajewski	@strangeloopgame	I'd like to share the projects we're building with funding from the department of Education.	I'd like to meet and hear from others how they're developing and using educational games.
35	Jennifer Estaris	@Aeiea	Would love to share my experience as a game designer for edutainment games during my time at Nick Jr., Neopets, Disney, and Fuel, as well as my current project on an art game educating players on environmental impact. Visiting from Los Angeles for my first Games For Change conference and would love to join EduGameMeet!	I would love to see the future of edu games and apply any learnings to my work.
36	Grant Hosford	@codesparkceo	I'll mainly be there to learn but I can bring the perspective of an entrepreneur who has recently founded a learning game company and raised seed capital to fund it.	I'm interested in best practices, distribution partners and networking in general.
37	Greg Toppo		Journalist
38	Julia Keren Detar	@quiltingcrow	I hope to bring my experiences in the indie game space to the table and learn more about this space.	I'd love to learn something new and network for future project collaboration.
39	Joshua Archer	@iocarigames	I own and operate a company (iocari) that runs after school and summertime enrichment programs for youth that uses role-playing games in both educational and entertainment contexts, and which teaches social-emotional skills. We also create educational units for classroom contexts that use role-playing and simulation paradigms to teach content in fun and engaging ways.	I hope to share what we are doing (and talk about our future plans for a sleep-away summer camp that combines role-playing games and real-world skills training) and to share ideas with other like-minded individuals. I'm hoping to network, find interested individuals that might want to play with us (especially in creating our sleep-away summertime adventure gaming camp), and finally I hope to get help in planning for funding opportunities.
40	Paige Dansinger	@museumpaige	MuseDraw!	Inspiration
41	Sandhya Nankani	@Litsafari	I recently released an IOS/Android kids app Dentist Bird, which is based on a Liberian folktale picture book "How PloverBird Came to Clean Crocodiles's Teeth." The app made the cut for Google Play for Educators store and comes with a robust guide for parents and educators (www.dentistbird.com). As a developer with a number of years of experience working in educational publishing, I have a good understanding of the twin audiences of kids and educators and the ways in which to create fun interactive learning content that also meets standards and am eager to connect with others in the same space.	I would love to figure out how to get into the hands of more teachers and gain feedback so that we can improve our subsequent apps - the vision is to create a series of folktale-inspired kids apps. I am also are looking to forge strategic partnerships / get funding with & from institutions interested in global, multicultural storytelling apps that merge literacy learning and games and can support our vision to deliver such content on tablets into the hands of kids in non-western countries through organizations such as the Global Literacy Project and others. (Dentist Bird is going to be deployed through three such NGOs to Asia, Africa, and South America)